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The Polemics in Jn 8: 31-59 in the Context of Jewish and Christian Literature

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The Gospel of John contains many verses in which there is polemic between Jesus and his interlocutors. One of the most polemical dialogue of the Fourth Gospel is Jn 8,31-59. Searching the answer for the source of its polemic the Author try to investigate it in wider context of Jewish and Christian literature. Among contemporary scholars the question of the polemic in Johannine community is an object of very intensive research and discussion. In the present article we want to analyze Jn 8,31-59 in the light of Jewish (Isaiah, Targum of Isaiah) and Christian (Letter to the Galatians, 1 Letter of John) sources. In such a way we will be able to see the conflict presented in Johannine text in wider context of Jewish and Christian literature.

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